Making modular urban board for modern wargaming

[@HacksawsHobbyBunker]

Your boards are incredible. That you included the painted markings for buried utilities and construction is especially cool to me - for several years I located and marked underground utility lines - so I have painted many of those same markings in 1:1 scale. And your wife did a fantastic job on the graffiti. Despite the minor imperfections (my projects are full of them too) that is a board to be proud of. Cheers!

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Thank you very much, that means a lot! It was a cool experience to create this board and some lessons was learned along the way. I had many other plans originaly for this board like a aerial train ot highway, a subway and other stuff but I had to stop at one point ^^

[@conmes3077]

🥰 welcome back, hopefully next time warmer days😉

[@admiralducksauce]

It's really neat how different people can use different materials to accomplish similar goals depending on their skillsets - here's MDF, I might use foam tile, someone else might use cardboard or 3d printing, etc. I love the construction cutout and the building foundation tile.

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Yeah exactly :) and I also like these custom pieces. It add some nice variety to the board.

[@skraal1801]

Your channel is incredible...you deserve way more followers! Absolutely love all of your fontent...pls keep it up! ♥️🙏🏼

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Thanks a lot! I've been busy building my new board and i should start a new campaign in a few months :)

[@dominiclemire2540]

Très bonnes explications avec les photos en référence. Merci beaucoup d'avoir partagé :)

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Derien ;)

[@KnightsOfDice]

It's such an amazing looking board! I'm very behind on the campaign episodes so I must catch up on those!

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Thanks a lot! To be honest I didn't had much time to record new missions lately, it's quite a long process, especially the translation. I have to say that 50 missions for this Dark Winter campaign might have been a bit too much ^^ I'm currently working on a brand new campaign with a brand new game board set in eastern europe and this time I'm trying to film all the steps so I can do a nice video at the end :)

[@KnightsOfDice]

@@TheSoloWargamer awesome, I look forward to watching!! I must say, I'm very impressed that you upload both French and English versions, bravo my good man!

[@TheSoloWargamer]

@@KnightsOfDice thanks! 🥰

[@JoeyC777]

Great board. Love all the customised building site tiles too.

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Thanks a lot :)

[@MikeM0331]

These are probably the best modular urban tiles I have seen so far. The little details like the tar patches and spray paint for construction are nice touches. Same with the graffiti on buildings. Something I have seen others do is use thin eva foam for the curbs/sidewalks. It's easy to cut and texture. For the lines, the paint pens seem to be clean lines, maybe hold a straight edge ruler and run the paint pen along it.

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Thanks ! The problem with the lines is that the fine sand I added to texture the road is not that fine. Using a pen, it grip on the sand and doesnt make a smooth line. I tried masking tape + spray paint but same problem. The masking tape doesnt absorb the différence in height of the sand and the paint quickly bleed below the tape.

[@MikeM0331]

@@TheSoloWargamer got it. Looks good regardless. Some streets don’t have it anyway.

[@primarchechs7139]

He's back!

[@danielherbera7522]

Merci pour tes vidéos, qui sont toujours très sympas. Ce serait top si tu publiais ta campagne sur BBG, pour ceux qui n'utilisent pas facebook. :-) Ta table est extraordinaire : très bien réalisée, très créative. C'est du super boulot. Bravo !

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Merci beaucoup, ça fait plaisir d'avoir des comments comme ça! BBG? Board Game Geek?

[@danielherbera7522]

@@TheSoloWargamer Oui, Board Game Geek. La page Spectre Operations est un peu vide hélas. Et si tu as le courage de faire un vrai tutoriel ... je pense qu'il y a de la demande pour le coup, en FR, mais surtout en anglais.

[@TheSoloWargamer]

@@danielherbera7522 oui c'est prévu. Une fois que j'ai le début de mon nouveau plateau de jeu, je pense faire des tutos pour chaque parties des règles. Déplacement, tir, grenades,... j'essaierai de faire tout ça en 2 langues mais j'avoue que j'ai jamais créer de compte sur bgg

[@danielherbera7522]

@@TheSoloWargamer Arf ! BBG, c'est LA référence incontournable. Si tu veux gagner en visibilité, c'est un passage obligé ! Tu devrais y poster tes vidéos d'ailleurs (tu peux poster le lien youtube directement, ça sera intégré nickel).

[@samb2052]

The kits you buy are fine but they’re expensive and I find you often end up doing almost as much work. Your’s looks great and better yet, you have the satisfaction of knowing it’s all your own work. Really good job.

[@TheSoloWargamer]

I agree that there is a lot of satisfaction. I also learned a lot and would change a few things if I were to redo that board but its clearly the kind of things you only do once ^^

[@Grognard-Solo-Gaming]

Looks great, fantastic job! 👍👏

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Thanks a lot!

[@ondarkendwings]

Awesome tiles 🤘

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Thanks ! :)

[@nickblack423]

That's really cool. Great work

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Uluelsomalien]

Thanks for the video !

[@TheSoloWargamer]

My pleasure!

[@tablesaltgames]

Maybe try using a paint marker or a sharpie to draw the street lines. It would give you more control over the flow.

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Yeah i already tried multiple technique for this but the asphalt is so grainy that it never create a smooth and sharp mine but i'm fine with the way they are now :)

[@SolventAbuseUk]

looks great

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Thanks !

[@GarbachNL]

Have you tried blue tack to create your center line of the road? It would form to the roughness of the asphalt and possibly prevent the bleeding of the paint?

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Nope never heard of that but will check it now :) thanks ;)

[@oliverhartmann2350]

Bei den Fahrbahnmarkierungen versuch mal. Abkleben in der Farbe der Strasse bemalen glebeband lassen und dann wenn trocken mit weiss oder gelb darüber. Das sollte klappen. Dann sind die Ränder versiegelt.

[@TheSoloWargamer]

@@oliverhartmann2350 i actually like it better with no road marking now. Looks like some old brooklyn neigjborhood

[@mathieu4204]

Les "gaps" entre les tuiles sont assez représentatifs de la qualité des routes que nous avons ici au Québec. :)

[@TheSoloWargamer]

hahaha ^^ alors on va dire que c'était voulu :D

[@kevinamartin2011]

Hello, Excellent work & loving the boards!!! Question: Did you use 6mm mdf to create the walkways?

[@TheSoloWargamer]

No, only 3mm. 6mm would have been to high compared to the road

[@TheSoloWargamer]

And thanks by the way :)

[@kevinamartin2011]

@@TheSoloWargamer ah I did think that but I seen your other tutorial where you used 6mm to do the concrete and just wanted to check so 6mm is for stand alone great loving the missions too. :)

[@spiderwick5513]

How many different road layouts can you get using the 16 tiles you did and how many buildings can you fit?

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Here you can see the whole table kzbin.info/www/bejne/aH7CfH2Iob6ie5Isi=6wX9H7pPDVzSQ1vT I think i did 4 full tiles the rest was street. Later on I also created some 2x2, 1x2, 2x4 concrete tiles to be able to fit more buildings or do large industrial zone

[@paulflament6105]

Vraiment top tes routes. Les trottoirs font combien de cm ? Et pour peindre le bitume et les trottoirs tu as utilisé uniquement de la bombe ?

[@TheSoloWargamer]

7cm pour les trottoirs. Et oui juste de la bombe et un mélange style nuln oil pour assombrir le tout a la fin.

[@paulflament6105]

@@TheSoloWargamer okok donc bombe noir et éclairci avec de la bombe grise. Et le mélange c'est celui que tu montre dans une autre vidéo ? Et les tâches c'est juste de la peinture noir mélangé avec de l'eau 😁

[@TheSoloWargamer]

@@paulflament6105 oui cest ça ;)

[@padeuch]

Quand je pense a tous les petits éléments qui trainent à droite à fauche qui te fais le plus des décors

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Oui, tous les petits objets de décors amène beaucoup de détail à la table!

[@hpairsoft5686]

Hey fella. I have just started getting into spectre and building up a table. Where did you get your vehicles from?

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Check out the more recent video on the channel. I did a series on where to find everything and one is dedicated to vehicles ;)

[@pawelrymsza]

Would be faster with some quixel assets :) nice job

[@TheSoloWargamer]

Hahaha indeed ^^